Subject: [dns-dir] Question about draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names

From: Ralph Droms <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:27:33 -0500

(resent with corrected From address)

IANA has a question about this text from section 5.5 or draft-cheshire-dnsext-special-names:

  1. Users SHOULD understand that example names are for use in
     documentation only and SHOULD NOT be expected to work with actual
     software on actual networks. Users SHOULD assume that queries for
     example names will always return NXDOMAIN responses.

IANA currently arranges for a web page describing the example domains to be returned in response to queries to, e.g., www.example.com.  Therefore, at present, a query to www.example.com never returns NXDOMAIN; this means the last sentence quoted above, while technically not wrong, is at least pointless if not misleading.

So, should we:

a) ask IANA to stop responding to queries to the example domains; or,
b) strike that last sentence from the document?

- Ralph